Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...odd smaller powers made it clear that they dislike, will try to temper, but will not strenuously oppose the concentration of responsibility for security in the Big Powers. There was absolutely no move for real political equality in the new world organization. ¶ Canada's Mackenzie King and the Latin Americans put great stress on the neglected economic and social aspects of Dumbarton Oaks. Many signs indicated that the Economic and Social Council will loom much larger in the final organization than it does in the original proposals...
...foreign orders and degrees." President for 20 years of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, he won half a 1931 Nobel Prize. Friend Theodore Roosevelt dubbed him Nicholas Miraculous (after St. Nicholas Thaumaturgis, the "Miracle Maker"). Butler himself, never a diffident man, wrote some of his 3,500-odd publications under the pen name "Cosmos...
...proprietor, who speaks Oriental proverbs in Edinburr dialect, 4) a duel with rapiers on a blood-red floor, 5) a hair-raising stagecoach chase, 6) a happy ending. This does not, perhaps, give a very clear idea of the story, but that is no great loss. One of the odd things about this odd picture is that there really is an Arizona town called Salome-Where She Danced. It was named; however, after a native, a Mrs. Grace Salome Pratt; and it is called, for short, Suhloam. The oddest thing of all, though, is that the show is quite...
...Patients. Congress has authorized $500,000,000 worth of new hospitals for the 15,000,000-odd World War II veterans who will be eligible for care in them. But a series of hearings last winter convinced the Senate's Pepper Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education (TIME, Jan. 15) that buildings are not enough. Preliminary findings: i) salaries in veterans' hospitals are too low to attract good doctors and nurses (doctors start at $3,200); 2) "hospitals are often isolated geographically and medically"; 3) the personnel shortage is severe...
...practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter. Robert Owen went on, for 30-odd years, to preach the doctrine of equality, reform and free love to crowned heads and commoners all over Europe and to plan more Utopias...